H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > Bashar Maree wrote: >> Thanks Suzanne. But what I need to know is how (the steps involved in) to >> make OOo make my document number the titles in the following manner: >> Each chapter has 4 levels of titles; >> first, chapter title (for example 2) but the number here should not appear >> second level (2.1 2.2 2.3 ...etc) >> third level (2.1.1 2.1.2 ....) >> fouth (2.1.1.1 .....) > > In document processing, these levels are called headings or section. For > example, in OOo they are called Headings and in LaTeX they are called > Sections. > > OOo has built in Headings and their format is called the heading style. > > In your scheme, you want something like this: > Heading 1 for chapters > Heading 2 for sections/first level headings > Heading 3 for subsections/second level headings > Heading 4 for subsubsections/third level headings > Heading 5 for subsubsubsections/fourth level headings. > > OOo has default formatting and numbering for all these styles. For now, > just ignore that, it can easily be fixed later. > > To try it out: > 1. Type the chapter title you want (just the text, no numbers). > 2. Click on that chapter title line, then click on the top left menu > area where it shows the style of that line (should show "Default"). It > will drop down a list of styles. Choose Heading 1 from there. The > chapter title line will be Heading 1 then. > 3. Click Enter and continue typing the chapter matter. > 4. When you want a section heading, just type it in and select its style > from the Style drop down menu as Heading 2 and continue the text in the > next line. > > You, as you can see, all you need to do is use styles. Later on, should > you decide to change the format a particular style (of Heading 1, or of > Heading 2, etc.), it can be done from Styles... dialog from Format. That > change then applies to the whole document. Quite neat, working with styles!
Forgot to mention, while modifying the style of a heading, you can also then fix what kind of numbering you want. This shows it with pics: http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/numbering_headings/ Regards. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
